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This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law had never been declared, was merely assumed. Possible results: 1) declaration of martial law on the Pacific Coast; 2) increased difficulty in enforcing dimouts, etc.; 3) court action by citizen Japanese who may construe from Judge Fee's ruling that they are illegally kept in camps...
...decision of Attorney General Biddle to regard all aliens of Italian origin as friendly, and to exempt them from curfew restrictions and other disabilities, is intelligent, humane, and well-advised...
...tent barbershop, or go to the hospital, which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with a mouth-organ duet and fine, boozy soldier harmony. Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around-the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days...
...opinion whispers that the stringent 8:30 o'clock curfew imposed upon the Navy men in the Yard caused the damsels to while away all their time on cold, stone steps, and eventually to begin their disillusioned trek homeward...
Australian bluenoses were quick to join the Lord Mayor in a mighty anti-necking crusade, urging everything from a girls' curfew to folk games as "a healthy, happy alternative." More sympathetic U.S. correspondents diagnosed the need as fewer, not more, restrictions. Melbourne takes in its sidewalks after 8 p.m. Only a handful of one-armed eating joints stay open. No drinks are sold. There is no place to spend the evening with a girl in the way of U.S. youth. Sundays are even worse. One vaudeville house and one movie, after soldier protests, were allowed to keep running...